One of 12 children rescued after being trapped in a cave in Thailand in 2018, he died this Thursday at the age of 17, according to an NGO who had given him a scholarship to study in the UK.
“The Zico Foundation would like to express its condolences on the death of Dom (child’s nickname), Duangphet Phromthep, a Zico Foundation scholarship student. The Zico Foundation will report the details and cause of his death later,” he said. said this NGO on its Facebook page.
The case of the boys trapped for 17 days in the Tham Luang cave shocked the world. The cave is the fourth longest in Thailand and is located in the north of the country, near the border with Myanmar and Lagos.
After being inside the cave for more than nine days, the 12 boys who were part of a soccer team and their coach were found and rescued.
As reported this Wednesday, the youngster had been studying since the end of last year at Brooke House College Football Academy in Leicester on a scholarship from the Zico Foundation.
Supatpong Methigo, a monk at Wat Doi Wao temple in Chiang Rai, Promthep’s hometown in Thailand, said on Facebook that the young man’s grandmother informed the monastic community, where the young man studied as a child, of the death today. .
The monk added that, according to his grandmother, the child died in an accident of which he did not provide more details and said the causes “are not clear”.
Promthep was 13 years old when, on June 23, 2018, he entered a cave in Chiang Rai province with his 11- to 16-year-old classmates and his 26-year-old guardian after soccer training, and nine days later they were located. four kilometers from the entrance.
All of them were rescued in a complicated international rescue operation through the cave’s partially flooded tunnels, which was completed 17 days later.
After the rescue, the cave became a pilgrimage site with between 1,000 and 3,000 daily visitors.
The passage through Buenos Aires and the story that became a film
A few months after being rescued, invited to the country by the International Olympic Committee to the Youth Olympic Games which opened this Saturday in Buenos Aires, the boys, aged between 11 and 16, visited Buenos Aires after the nightmare they lived.
Ake, her 25-year-old trainer, was also the singing voice in this interview. “The meditation and concentration we practiced inside the cave and the help of Thais and foreigners to get us out was what remains in my memory the most,” the coach told Argentine press.
The boys of the Thailand team they played a friendly match against River youth. Clarín accompanied them to the Monumental to tell all the intimacy of 3 to 3 and how the rest of the afternoon continued for the Wild Boars.
The dramatic rescue was brought to theaters through the film ‘The Cave’ and Netflix released a six-episode mini-series about the event last year.
Source: Clarin
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